Bookend Boys: Supermom Moment!

I was going through some boxes in the garage and found two old car seat covers from our original infant car seats from 2007. I had sent the expired seats off to recycle and apparently saved the covers just in case our next child was a boy...which he is! However, I was given an updated travel system that doesn't expire before my son is supposed to move to the next size, and it's a nice red and blue boy pattern. Back to today, 1-year after moving finding an unopened box here I find the covers I tucked away for future baby boy, now eight months old.

What to do, what to do?

Well, of course the first thought is...throw them out, duh! Who needs more stuff we don't need, and who's going to buy a car seat cover...that's just weird! Then I realize one thing...my 2007 Evenflo Expressions High Chair needs a new cover! See, our original cover from 2007 made it through 2 kids, but was killed in 2010 by the dryer (since it wasn't supposed to be in there-oops!).

We put up with it until my third child was born in 2011. At that point I took the cover down to Joanne's Fabrics and copied it, using fabrics that looked like the same quality and even putting a vinyl layer on it...really cute, but STUPID! They Vinyl was more trouble than it was worth and in the end it got just as dirty and nasty...yuck! It took so long to make that I just tore off the vinyl that tore after only a few months, and we lived with it...stains and all.

Now the "new" cover is stained and...well Pink! So my son needs something new. I was going to go down and get fabric and start the process all over again until today!! This is perfect!

I put the carseat cover on to see if the buckles lined up, and they are PERFECT, so all I needed to do was cut a whole for the plastic leg guard that keeps babies from slipping out the bottom... Sew around the edges of the new hole... And VOILA!